Four former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders received sentences totaling 81 years for war crimes including torture, arbitrary detention, and murder of 96 people during the 1998-99 Kosovo war. Serbian President Vucic accused the court of bias, claiming it avoided convicting the KLA leaders of crimes against humanity to protect the organization's credibility and ignored post-1999 crimes against Serbs.
Vucic Rejects Kosovo War Crimes Verdict, Claims Court Shielded KLA
The convicted KLA leaders were found responsible for torture of 303 people, arbitrary detention of 385 people, and murder of 96 people during the 1998-99 Kosovo war.